History: Chan was a student in Taiwan
which at the time had been the last major outpost of the Chinese
Nationalist government, which had been overthrown on mainland
China in its Communist Revolution. Chan's father was fervidly
opposed to Communism and was angered by his son's refusal to join
the Chinese Nationalist Army, which he hoped would oppose the
mainland government.

Chan, however, secretly had his own plan for
battling the Chinese Communists, who were then planning an
invasion force to conquer Taiwan. To this end, he used his
knowledge of ancient Chinese history to locate and journey to the
Valley of the Sleeping Dragon. Within a cave he found the
slumbering form of the immense dragon Fin Fang Foom. Chan brought
with him two herbs from the legends, one to awaken the dragon,
and another to send it into endless sleep.

After awakening the dragon, Chan threatened to
put him back to sleep. He then fled the dragon on horseback,
leading it to the coast where the Communist invasion force was
massed. Fin Fang Foom destroyed the invasion force in his efforts
to find Chan, who then again fled the dragon, leading it back to
its former crypt. He then managed to brush the other herb against
the dragon's lips and send it back into a slumber it would remain
in for may years to come.

In more recent times, Chan was a professor at
U.C. Berkely, when he sensed activity of Fin Fang Foom. He
returned to the Valley in time to see Fin Fang Foom burst free,
apparently under the control of the demon Aan Taanu. Chan was
summoned back to the apartment of Charles Blackwater by the
entity known as Omen. There was joined by several others of
similar mystic experience to form the Legion of the Night. Chan
accompanied the Legion on its journey to the astral realm of Aan
Taanu. Chan battled the demon's hordes alongside Katherine
Reynolds and Omen while others succeeded in halting the demon's
plans, banishing him, and preventing his offspring by a mortal
woman from being born.

Chan decided to remain with the Legion to
defend the earth against other mystic threats.